Google Wave (or, how the Internet Just Collectively Shat a Brick)

I have always hated email, and I've always liked forums, so I will definately be taking to this.

The things you can do are really useful and it updates in real time like an IM. I like how you can click icons representing friends and colleges to add them to the conversation.
 
Watched the whole thing. Incredibly cool, although I do think there's gonna be a steep learning curve before you can utilize all the options effectively. It's gonna be very interesting to see if this will really become the protocol of the future.
 
I particularly like the way you can drag and drop photos with thumbnails that appear for the other people in the wave immediately. There the other people can view them or download them, or even add their own. This would be cool if, for example, we all took our own photos on vacation, and we could all add the photos we each took into the pool.

Then you can even send that pool of photos to other friends : vacation photos.
 
Doesn't amaze me much to be honest.
Just looks like a fancy gmail.
 
Did you watch the video?

I'm very interested in live collaborative editing. Going to be very useful for group projects.
Aye, I can remember dozens of occasions of the past where it would have been useful.
 
I got to "Android Phones" looked at the length of the vid, then at the time on my clock (1:07 A.M.). I'll watch this some other time. Sounds interesting enough though.
 
Saw first 15 mins then skipped around. Have to say, it's long overdue.
 
is this because of Wolfram Alpha stealing some steam lately?? also can someone find the bullet points, i don't know if i can watch all of this in one piece
 
It's an easy to use and very intuitive GUI that morphs the best things about live messaging/email/and forums.

It will be practically self explanatory like all of google's stuff. Won't be released for about a year
 
is this because of Wolfram Alpha stealing some steam lately?? also can someone find the bullet points, i don't know if i can watch all of this in one piece

Yes, because in the short time that Wolfram's Alpha has been useable, Google is able to make a presentable build of Wave, amiright?
 
I agree with whoever said it looks like a fancy gmail... just a bunch of shit I don't want.
 
Yes, because in the short time that Wolfram's Alpha has been useable, Google is able to make a presentable build of Wave, amiright?

i meant more like a 'trick up your sleeve' for google but noyournotrite.lolol
 
It isn't due out for a year and they chose to show it now. I don't think what Warped said is far fetched.
 
well...


...I got nothin'


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I think your ass is far stretched.
 
I think Google Wave is bar-sketched.

/semi-on-topic
 
Cant be bothered watching that for an hour, watched far enough in to see him describing this wave thing.

Its Just MSN group conversations or IRC but I A) already have those and B) I don't use email for IM'ing.

But as for the rest if its a big deal I'm sure I'll be using it sooner or later.



Also off-topic that first dude introducing the presentation looks like he got berat up in school. :dork:
 
Hmm, whatever.
I'm sure many people will find this useful, as for me, I'm happy with my vanilla Gmail and using msn.
 
It might be actually useful if it could integrate every other forum/email/im website/software that already exists so that you don't need to change everything else. I didn't watch the whole demo so I am not sure if they mention that later.
 
It might be actually useful if it could integrate every other forum/email/im website/software that already exists so that you don't need to change everything else. I didn't watch the whole demo so I am not sure if they mention that later.

That's possible by writing extensions for the forum/blog/whatever.
 
I'm not sure some people in this thread realise just quite how extensible and applicable this thing is. It's not just some silly website or stand-alone application.
 
Its actually better than present IM because it communicates every character in realtime. So way less 'Joss is typing' and you sitting there waiting. Also the convos are saved, which is always a good thing.

The only 'hmm' aspect to it is I'm assuming that its only going to initially work with gmail accounts and tbh, a lot of my friends don't have them, and aren't inclined to change over (there are still plenty of people with hotmail accounts out there still...)
 
I tried about 5 years ago, but I couldn't get a gmail account because I didn't have a cell phone :|
 
I tried about 5 years ago, but I couldn't get a gmail account because I didn't have a cell phone :|

Need a cellphone? Shit I'll send you an invite PM me your current email address Virus (or anyone else whose a forum member and wants one for that matter)
 
Need a cellphone? Shit I'll send you an invite PM me your current email address Virus (or anyone else whose a forum member and wants one for that matter)

Really? It was my brother that had a gmail acct and he told me I'd need a cellphone to get one. I thought we tried that.

If you can get me an acct, then thanks. I have never liked yahoo. Although I haven't tried gmail, I have a feeling I'll like it better.
 
Cant be bothered watching that for an hour, watched far enough in to see him describing this wave thing.

Its Just MSN group conversations or IRC but I A) already have those and B) I don't use email for IM'ing.

How about you watch it for an hour before you comment?

Sure, this has features that are already in existence. It has things that you use everyday. But that's the beauty of it. That it's taken several applications that you use daily and allowed you to combine them into one, more intuitive, accessible, aggregated online tool. Then it's been made open-source and so flexible it can be expanded to almost anywhere.

Hell, I'm looking forward to being able to browse multiple forums through Google Wave.

Edit: It also seemed to add a lot of useful, user-friendly features that are seen around social-networking sites like Facebook.
 
Watched half an hour of it. Bricks weren't exactly shat, but it seemed cool.
 
Really? It was my brother that had a gmail acct and he told me I'd need a cellphone to get one. I thought we tried that.

If you can get me an acct, then thanks. I have never liked yahoo. Although I haven't tried gmail, I have a feeling I'll like it better.

The cellphone thing was only if you tried to use the sign up page afaik. If you're invited via an email then there shouldn't be a necessity. Your brother should have an invites option as standard on his account (I had something like 100 invites when I got my account), however PM us your email and I'll send you one.
 
You don't need invites to join G-Mail, they removed that requirement three years ago. And why the hell don't you have cell phone, Virus?
 
What I really like about what Wave is proposing is not that it is an all-in-one email, IM, forum, social networking app. It doesn't matter who wrote an all-in-one app if they don't gain a user base (AIM's user base can't talk to MSN Msg's. You'd have to run both apps). But I do think it has great potential to become a standard way to communicate. Like email is a standard. HTTP websites are a standard. So the base could become everyone.

Example, you would be able to write a Wave (like writing an email or a forum post) and it can be posted on a blog or on a site. The responses to that Wave will then ALSO appear in the blog. All the edits and updates done etc.
Normally if you wanted to post the conversation on a blog you would provide a link to a forum or quote an email you got. Not have it display 'live' (the most current version of the convo). So it's much more integrated and the opposite direction of having separate type of apps to do these things.

I would think it could be done in reverse too. If a forum decided to use Waves for threads. If you didn't want to always go to every forum you are on you could check all the Waves that you responded to or that you are subscribed to at once with the app.
And then turn around and send a message or private response to just 1 person, an 'email', 'PM' or 'IM' whatever you want to think of it as.
 
What I really like about what Wave is proposing is not that it is an all-in-one email, IM, forum, social networking app. It doesn't matter who wrote an all-in-one app if they don't gain a user base (AIM's user base can't talk to MSN Msg's. You'd have to run both apps). But I do think it has great potential to become a standard way to communicate. Like email is a standard. HTTP websites are a standard. So the base could become everyone.

Example, you would be able to write a Wave (like writing an email or a forum post) and it can be posted on a blog or on a site. The responses to that Wave will then ALSO appear in the blog. All the edits and updates done etc.
Normally if you wanted to post the conversation on a blog you would provide a link to a forum or quote an email you got. Not have it display 'live' (the most current version of the convo). So it's much more integrated and the opposite direction of having separate type of apps to do these things.

I would think it could be done in reverse too. If a forum decided to use Waves for threads. If you didn't want to always go to every forum you are on you could check all the Waves that you responded to or that you are subscribed to at once with the app.
And then turn around and send a message or private response to just 1 person, an 'email', 'PM' or 'IM' whatever you want to think of it as.

This is correct, but you forgot to mention that the source code is also being made public. Which means that Google won't get a monopoly. Which is another indicator of success.
 
Just based on the features presented, I see countless uses, even beyond social implementations.

Reviewing edit-history of your own documents, building business plans, organizing vast amounts of material into sub-trees, organizing documents, etc. I actually have a private internet discussion forum that I use for some of these purposes, but this would be far more useful.
 
It's named after a phrase from Firefly which makes it a clear winner in my book even before I understand wtf it is.

Edit: Just finished watching - what a mind****. As cool and useful as it looked though I think it'll be tough to get Joe Average to use it and make full use of it's features.
 
Did anyone get an invite yet? I just got mine last night (which led to me freaking out for a few minutes), but I don't have much use for it until I get more contacts (especially people I plan on working with on various projects).
 
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